USADA's Tygart: Pacquiao's 14-Day Window 'Missing the Point, he doesn't understand'

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Travis Tygart, chief executive director of The United States Anti-Doping Agency, says that seven-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, is "missing the point."

A 31-year-old WBO champion, Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) claims that he has "agreed" to a 14-day window in which to allow himself to have blood drawn as part of the negotiations for a potential bout with Floyd Mayweather.

"Floyd has no reason to refuse to fight anymore," said Pacquiao, "because I have agreed to the 14-day limit within which they can draw blood from me."

A proposed, March 13 match up between Mayweather and Pacquiao reached a negotiations impasse over the issue of random drug testing, but talks have resumed and are said to be ongoing.

"You can't have a blackout period," said Tygart, referring to Pacquiao's timetable. "You simply can't draw circles around certain times where you're not going to be tested."

Given an opportunity, Tygart would try to reason with Pacquiao.

"Part of the education would be to sit down with whatever fighter -- whether it be Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather or whomever it might be," Tygart said. "And you would say, 'Look, here's the reality of the program, and here's a typical program."

Tygart's USADA achieved a boxing first by implementing and overseeing the random testing of blood and urine on both Mayweather and Shane Mosley during the lead up to their May 1 clash won by Mayweather.

Mayweather had both blood and urine taken on March 22, April 1, April 13 and then on the night directly after the fight. Mayweather provided urine only on April 3, April 6, April 21 and April 24.

Mosley provided both blood and urine on March 23, March 31, April 12 and directly after the bout on fight night. Mosley provided urine on April 3, April 6, April 21 and April 24.

"All things considered, the number of tests and the fact that we're re-testing for later analysis, and the fact that we had unlimited tests, and no missed tests, and we showed up and tested them unannounced, looking at the test results -- all of those things factored into how we execute and when we execute tests," said Tygart.

"With Mayweather and Mosley, it was like, 'Look, guys, if we have no desire or need to test you three days, or two weeks with blood, then we're not going to do that,'" said Tygart. "But we have a right to do it, because circumstances might arise where we get wind that there is someone using human growth hormone, or another drug, and we want to catch you and stop you before the fight so that you don't go and hurt the other fighter."
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